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I had just rebuilt the engine and it's been giving me trouble lately. Had smoke on decel so I got the turbo rebuilt and while at it also install the SAFCII and VPC to by pass the AFM. Got the turbo back, put it together and fire it up and it was black smoke since we didn't do the setting right...

I just had my turbo oil seal redone since it was smoking on decel and after boost on freeway and I want to make sure this turbo last longer than two months so I seen a lots of posts on restrictor to reduce oil pressure to make it last longer on the seals. So the question is, how do you install...

I bought an external FPR a year ago and now I am working on my engine and I wanna put on the FPR to get higher fuel pressure. How do you guy do it? Do you remove the built in FPR and install a barb fitting, if so what is the side thread that you used? I took the FPR off and went to home depot...

Ok I have the smoke on decel after boosting issues and it's not the turbo b/c i replaced the turbo when this first happened, also rebuilt engine and just put it back. My friend who work at Toyota as a mechanic suggested that it could be my powersteering or break that is leaking oil either into...

So I did a rebuilt and all, new piston and new pistons rings and oil seals for the valves. I had some trouble firing it up and it's now fix and I keep running into problems. My timing belt is align correct and all but I am still running at 30 advance instead of 10 on TDC. That's not really a big...

Ok so I have the lexus afm pipe with the adjustable screw and I swaped out the sensor and low and behold the honeycom screen will not fit b/c it's smaller than the one on the lexus and the thing won't fit inside the accordion hose b/c it's the same size and the accordion pipe wth... It work and...

After I took my engine off and put it back together with new seals and everything and fired it up, it idle for a while and smoke come out the rear just like b4. Open up the accordion pipe, about two teaspoon of oil was sitting there in the accordion pipe. I got this ct26 60-1 thing about a year...

Ok so I removed the thing when i took out the engine and now i am putting it back together, the car won't start and this is the last place to trouble shoot. I can shift from P to L and back w/o any problem which mean that I did align it back correct or can that still misalign the neutral start...

I just put my engine back together and I should have replace that stupid starter but i didn't and now it's giving me problem. Gona take it out and see what the hell is wrong. The new problem I have is when I turn the key to ON, it doesn't actually go to on, it's as if the key is still stuck in...

Not sure if this is techincal or general question but I kinda opened up my overdrive button on my shifter and as many of you know the spring went poof and I can't find it lol. I wanna find a spring to replace it but i didn't got a good look at it b4 it flew out and disappear on me. Anyone by...

Anyone living in the San Jose, CA are know of a good machine shop that I could take the header to go get it mill and remove the dips that I am seeing on the contact surface?

I have removed and taken the engine aprt now and I am going to replace the cam bearing and crank shaft bearing. The question is do I just order std bearing or do i really have to look at the table and order the correct stuff? I mean the table even has std 1,2,3,4,5.... made you think there are 5...

Hey guys, I removed the engine during the weekend and now taken most of the stuff off and it's ready to get put on an engine stand but do you mount it in the front or the rear? What size bolt do I need to mount the engine, the one i have for the engine before this might be different since it's a...

I am planning on pulling my engine over winter break to do valve stem seal and replace other gasket and such and I am thinking of getting the walbro 255. How do you know if you actually got a walbro and not some cheap stuff. I only have 4 weeks max to work on the project and shove the engine...

I don't know if this is tech or general so... Anyway, I have a 91 turbo auto and the brake pedal is just annoying. I don't want to have half of my foot on the gas pedal while I step on the brake. The dealer has a manual brake pedal for 70 before taxes that I am thinking of replacing with. How...

My old turbo had bad oil seal so there are oil vapor in the IC. I changed the turbo to a 60-1 CT26 and it's still burning oil at accelleration after idle at red light. When I was on the freeway stuck in traffic, the car puff smoke almost constantly. Is the smoke coming from the oil still in...

I took my 91 turbo out with a newly installed 60-1 CT26 on it for a drive to adjust the boost level down so I don't overboost. So after i drove it for awhile to get it all warm up I floor the gas after the red light and it rev to 3500 rpm and then the car stutter twice like it hit fuel cut, I...

I got to the TSRM and found the SPD that I am gona splice into for the Greddy TT but I am kinda confuse here. Is the picture looking at the harness from the front of the ECU? I thought it was the back so I think I plice the wrong wire and I am gona have to redo it.

Hi guys, my car recently started spitting out oils after driving for a while when it is park. I went down there to check to see if the camshaft oil seal that I changed two month ago broke or something but it turn out that the oil is coming out from all the old oil line. I squeze the braided line...

I am upgrading to a 60-1 CT26 so I need a boost controller as not to blow it to shread. I looked at some of the manual boost controller on ebay and it look very simple to create. Has anyone create one before? I am gona go to homedepot or what not and buy some valve and stuff to see if it is...